An advantage of doing a lot of original research on copyright, and the history of copyright in particular, is that you start seeing very…
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History of Copyright, part 3: The Monopoly Dies – And Rises
After Bloody Mary had enacted the copyright censorship monopoly in 1557, neither the profitable industry guild nor the censoring Crown had any desire to…
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History of Copyright, part 2: Bloody Mary
On May 23, Mary was formally declared a bastard by the archbishop. Her mother, Catherine, who was a catholic and the Pope’s protegé, had…
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